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Carole Anzolletti 6 years agofrom The Phantom Queen's Labyrinth

Thank you for reading and your compliments:) re-installed the hubpages app on my phone so I can get to my replies quicker now!

Nefarious_Misery 6 years agofrom on the move

Amazing piece. Both the literal and metaphoric, leaves one with an impending sense of doom. Definitely voted up and awesome.

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Carole Anzolletti 6 years agofrom The Phantom Queen's Labyrinth

that IS terrifying! It's just the split fraction of that moment when you are engulfed in helplessness and pain, that realization of loss of control and how we are "righted" somehow after such a traumatic experience...thankfully you were (are) okay! Wonderful that dad got rid of that car :)

LaDena Campbell 6 years agofrom Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Near Oz...

Carole - once as a child I was riding in the backseat of a car that had no seat belts and a damaged back door. As my father rounded a corner, the door flew open and I fell out...skidded across the street and nearly into a storm drain...talk about a terrifying moment! My entire abdomen was nothing but road rash...but otherwise I was ok. My dad sold that car to the junk yard the next day...

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Carole Anzolletti 6 years agofrom The Phantom Queen's Labyrinth

justateacher, it is definitely tragic that people want to skip the rules...I once saw a child fall out of a moving car in an intersection not far from where this happened, she just spilled out into the road...why wasn't she seatbelted in? Maybe it was before child safety locks were created but...it was horrifying. All I could think of was what if someone ran a red light just then...

LaDena Campbell 6 years agofrom Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Near Oz...